The four young ladies that make up SAHARA HOTNIGHTS -- Maria, Johanna, Jennie, and Josephine -- came together as teenagers in the small town of Robertsfors, Sweden to put a distaff spin on the then-going-great-guns grunge movement.Channeling aspects of other tough-chicks-with-dirty-riffs rockers -- THE RUNAWAYS; THE DONNAS -- Sahara Hotnights began to garner international attention with their second record, 2001's JENNIE BOMB (it certainly didn't hurt that fellow Swedes THE HIVES were blowing up right about then; "Hate to Say I Told You So" was the "Young Folks" of its day).
To my mind, JENNIE BOMB remains the Hotnights' best work to date. Subsequent efforts -- including this year's terribly-titled WHAT IF LEAVING IS A LOVING THING -- have tended to tilt toward the slicker, poppier domain of countrymen THE SOUNDS. Not that that's a BAD thing, exactly. It's just that a few rough edges tend to keep things interesting, while filing them down too smooth has a way of trapping even the most promising artists in a safe-but-sterile limbo-land. That way stagnation lies.
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SAHARA HOTNIGHTS strutting their stuff >>>
Jun 14 2007 8:00P/Hultsfredsfestivalen/Hultsfred
Jun 28 2007 8:00P/Sofiero Slott/Helsingborg
Jun 29 2007 8:00P/Peace and Love/Borlänge
Jun 30 2007 8:00P/Stadsfesten/Skellefteå
Jul 5 2007 8:00P/Strömsunds Marknad/Strömsund
Jul 6 2007 8:00P/Gatufesten/Sundsvall
Jul 7 2007 8:00P/Ruisrock/Turku/Åbo
Jul 20 2007 8:00P/Rockoff Festivalen/Mariehamn
Jul 21 2007 8:00P/Fästningen/Varberg
From the LP WHAT IF LEAVING IS A LOVING THING, 2007 >>>
[MP3] [VID] "Cheek to Cheek"
[MP3] "Visit to Vienna"
From the LP KISS & TELL, 2004 >>>
[MP3] [VID] "Who Do You Dance For?"
[MP3] "Keep Calling My Baby"
From the LP JENNIE BOMB, 2001 >>>
[MP3] "Are You Happy Now?"
[MP3] "Fire Alarm"
From the LP C'MON LET'S PRETEND, 1999 >>>
[MP3] "Too Cold for You"
[MP3] [VID] "Drive Dead Slow"
until this post i had only heard of hot night crash. just passed it off as one hit something or other. thank you for giving me a little more to go on. good stuff!
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ReplyDeleteyou know, is great like see band like this, formed by common people, and the voice of those women oh my!!! is like hear angels, definitely know I see why you name this site plague of angels.
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